CENTRAL PARK BIRD WALK

OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS piece about accompanying G. Stuart Keith, a British subject, on a birdwatching tour of Central Park. Their objective was the Ramble. The first bird sighted was a parula; one of the smallest warblers. Tells about the highly developed eye in birds, the respiratory system migration, altitude at which they fly, speed, etc. At Beresford Apts., five grackles were chasing a broad-winged hawk. In '48, a pair of peregrines perched on one of the towers of the building. The same pair had frequented other tall buildings in the city. In '43, two peregrines had established themselves on the 16th floor of the Hotel St. Regis. Totting up the list of species they had seen, they found they had 41, 17 of them warblers. The record for birds seen in Central Park on one day, is 99 species, set in 1954, by several dozen observers fanned out across the Park.